Fritz Gerlich

Fritz Gerlich (15 February 1883-30 June 1934) was a German journalist and historian. He was a leading journalistic opponent of Adolf Hitler, leading to his execution at Dachau during the Night of the Long Knives.

Biography
Fritz Gerlichwwas born in Stettin, German Empire in 1883, and he became an archivist and journalist. He was originally a supporter of the far-right, writing anti-socialist and national conservative publications for the German Fatherland Party. However, his views came to be more liberal in 1919, denouncing anti-Semitism and coming to join the German Democratic Party. From 1920 to 1928, he was editor-in-chief of the Muencher Neueste Nachrichten, one of the largest publications in southern Germany. After the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, he became a prominent anti-Nazi, and he later became inspired by the social teachings of the Catholic Church after converting from Calvinism to Catholicism. In 1932, he became the owner of Der Gerade Weg, opposing communism, national socialism, and anti-Semitism. On 9 March 1933, the Nazi regime arrested him and sent him to the Dachau concentration camp, where he was executed on 30 June 1934 during the Night of the Long Knives.